May 14, 2015

ReBel's Search For Partnerships

Recently, we have been searching for new vendors to spread our delicious rebel bars. To do that, we started sending out emails to potential vendors around our community. We sent two emails to City Fitness and Philadelphia Runner. We’ve contacted Diana, the operations manager at City Fitness to propose a partnership and she wishes to arrange a time for ReBel Ventures to visit her and explain more about who we are. Meanwhile, we’ve also contacted...

January 15, 2015

First staff meeting of 2015

Good afternoon, today is January 15, 2015 and we just finished our first staff meeting of the year. We have this staff meeting each week to make sure everyone’s on the same page and organized about our business. After the meeting we started  to brainstorm and storyboard for our new video. We’re making this video to ensure our fruit stand workers are aware of what Rebel Ventures is about. Fruit stands are usually stations set...

January 14, 2015

New Year, New ReBel – Tips from the Owner of Gia Pronto

Yesterday, Marco Lentini, the owner of Gia Pronto restaurants, paid a visit to the kitchen at ReBel Headquarters. He spent 2 hours giving us feedback on how to improve the production of our product – ReBel Bars. When he first arrived, one of our leaders, Jarrett, gave him a tour of the kitchen and explained our 5 step process in making ReBel Bars: measuring ingredients, mixing ingredients, scooping the right amount of mix for each...

November 4, 2014

First Time at the Honey Farm

Today ReBel Ventures packaged 570 ReBel Bars. We are currently making our weekly deliveries to our neighborhood stores. Also, the crew is working on a new granola bar label that should appeal to our customers. It has honey combs on it, representing the natural honey we use to make the bars. ReBel Ventures gets this honey fresh out the hives from one of the finest bee keepers, Walt, in Kennett Square. His farm is located...

July 11, 2014

First Ever Customer of the Week: Jill Zhuraw

We are now starting to implement weekly Customer of the Week posts. This week our featured costumer is Jill Zhuraw. Here are a few things we learned about Jill at Clark Park's Farmers Market. Hometown: Swarthmore Favorite Food: Pomegranates Eating Healthy: Jill predominately eats a plant based diet. She says she eats whatever she wants, but this usually ends up being a fully vegan diet- plus honey! Jill says its about what you don't eat rather than what you do eat;...